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I can't comment on his personal ideology - I just respect his technical skills and contributions. But if what you say is true - that he has been leaning more an

I can't comment on his personal ideology - I just respect his technical skills and contributions. But if what you say is true - that he has been leaning more and more to the right - I can't help wonder if the vicious campaign against him perhaps pushed him more to the right and made him a hardliner. The irrational beliefs of fundamentalists often rest on a foundation of victimhood (real or perceived, they are undoubtedly a painful personal experience). As we are learning, the internet's "cancel" culture ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture ) and echo chambers are making people's beliefs more rigid, and creating an unhealthy us vs them mentality. Till the scandal, Eich seemed to be quite professional in separating his work from his personal life / belief. If that has changed now, for the worse (like you seem to be hinting), then I do feel sorry for his situation.

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> Till the scandal, Eich seemed to be quite professional in separating his work from his personal life / belief. He still is. One of the reasons I like projects like Brave and Vivaldi is that although I can see/infer some of their staff's politics, the teams themselves understand that they're toolmakers. That the world is a better place if smiths focused on forging good hammers and either left the preaching to someone else or did it off the clock. Both projects have politics, but those are politics of browsermaking - privacy, lack of tracking, trying to give users more control rather than thinking they should tell you and me how to use their tools, what to think, what to see on the web. Brave and Vivaldi make hammers. And that is good.